[TheRealThing]

Proof? Real proof, not some blog.

That's what I'm asking. What do you know that I don't about this case? I just read Travon was being discilplined by his high school administrators, and was serving a 10 day suspension from his school, that's the reason he was out walking around in the first place. If I put myself in Zimmerman's position, I might be suspicious about somebody unfamiliar walking aroung the neighborhood. If I was a watch leader of sorts, I might even try to notice where the person was going. It is hard to imagine Zimmerman just sort executed Martin and that is what most folks are inferring from what I gather.

What is Zimmerman's basic biography?
George Michael Zimmerman was born in 1983, the third of four children of Robert and Gladys Zimmerman. Robert, a retired military man and magistrate judge, describes the family as multiracial, telling the Orlando Sentinel that "George is a Spanish-speaking minority with many black family members and friends." Gladys is of Peruvian descent. George grew up in Manassas, Va., where neighbors describe the Zimmermans as very religious — George was an altar boy and evening receptionist at the family's parish, All Saints Catholic Church. The Zimmerman children attended Catholic school through eighth grade, then public high school. The family moved to Florida about a decade ago. George married Shellie Nicole Dean, a cosmetologist, in 2007.

What does he do for a living?
At the time he shot Martin, Zimmerman was working as an underwriter at mortgage risk-management firm Digital Risk. He had also been working on an associates degree at Seminole State College from 2009, with an eye toward law enforcement, until the school pushed him out after the shooting, citing safety reasons. In 2008, Zimmerman completed a 14-week citizens' police academy program offered by the Seminole Sheriff's Department. Zimmerman has also worked in the past as an insurance agent, and at used-car seller CarMax.

To me if it's odd Travon got shot, (and it certainly seems to be), then it's odd that Zimmerman would have shot him without some kind of a confrontation which probably went both ways. It looks to me like they likely traded some meanacing threats between them, Zimmerman could have bitten off more than he could chew when a fight ensued, and he resorted to shooting Travon. It is hard to substantiate a racial bias in this matter from the Zimmerman side of the argument when the bolded statement above is taken even glibly into consideration.